Quote from: RedFoxI like kitchen-sink mish-mashes, with a particular soft spot for space opera.  Also, high-powered fantasy.  Star Wars and Exalted (the setting, anyway) are right up my alley.

I'm pretty shameless about what I like.  It doesn't have to be too serious or anything.  And I like furries (anthropomorphic animals) for their own sake if they're thrown in anywhere.

My goodness man!  All that, and you haven't jumped into Rifts?  I have to head out this morning, but I'll whip up a list for you, Pierce, and whomever else would care for one as quick as I can.

Of all Palladium games, Rifts is one of my favorites. More so than anything Palladium brings imagination to the gaming table, and Rifts is so jam-packed with raw fucking gamer imagination of all varieties it bursts at the seams.

The other? Road Hogs. C'mon....it's TMNT and other Strangeness meets Road Warrior. So good.

I really don't need to start re-working on my conversions...I have enough to do.....damn you all....

Quote from: Christmas ApeOf all Palladium games, Rifts is one of my favorites. More so than anything Palladium brings imagination to the gaming table, and Rifts is so jam-packed with raw fucking gamer imagination of all varieties it bursts at the seams.

And that's one the biggest reasons I love Palladium. Nicely put.
 
Now then, recommendations for RedFox and Co.:
 
Aside from the Rifts Ultimate & Conversion books, I think you might want to check out Atlantis (2), Japan (, Lone Star (13), and possibly Phase World.But there are a lot of titles that might interest you...

Quote from: RedFoxI like kitchen-sink mish-mashes, with a particular soft spot for space opera.  Also, high-powered fantasy.  Star Wars and Exalted (the setting, anyway) are right up my alley.

I'm pretty shameless about what I like.  It doesn't have to be too serious or anything.  And I like furries (anthropomorphic animals) for their own sake if they're thrown in anywhere.

Have you ever checked out After the Bomb?  It's fur-tacular!

As for which world books to get, I'll just add this:

For the love of all that is holy, stay away from the craptacular world books Free Quebec, The Xiticix Invasion, and Canada!  Most Palladium books have at least something good in them.  These three are the blandest, most pointless books you've ever seen.

Quote from: jgantsHave you ever checked out After the Bomb?  It's fur-tacular!

After the bomb is one of my favorite games period. Palladium or other. I wish I could have played in Erick Wujcik's AtB game at the open house. (Or really any of the other games he ran. I was just not fast enough to the tables or the sign sheets though. )

Quote from: jgantsHave you ever checked out After the Bomb? It's fur-tacular!

It is indeed!!!!  And fully Rifts-compatible!!

Okay. For the first time in my life I looked at a Rifts book--the Ultimate Edition.

Well... it's definitely not bland.

Seriously, I'm quite taken. This is some crazy shit. And cheap!

Now... I'm not into the whole North America thing... I'm not looking for a postapoc flavor, with recognizable locales.

So, would Phase World be good? Atlantis? China, even?

What the hell is this Skyrapers thing? That's a campaign, right? Any good? I wouldn't mind buying an adventure, to see how you run a game like Rifts. Because I really have no idea how to do that.

Skraypers is a dimension book, like Phase World. A completely alternate reality that, while connected to Rifts Earth, isn't Rifts Earth. As I recall, Skraypers is a kind of "superhuman resistance fights alien occupation" set-up.

As for where you'd want to put your Rifts game, there are lots of parts of North America that really don't look anything like they used to, but the big question is would you rather your starting locale 'default' for lack of a better word to magic or technology? The New German Republic defaults to technology in a "laid-back Coalition" sort of way, while England is very magic-heavy. Atlantis mixes the two with a magic bias but is no good for human PCs, China came out after I stopped playing. but as I recall Rifts Japan has both in equal measure and in conflict with each other.

Now, how do you run a Rifts adventure? Select your favorite early nineties metal, pop open some beers, and direct a CGI music video with an unlimited budget in your head and with words.

Quote from: Christmas ApeNow, how do you run a Rifts adventure? Select your favorite early nineties metal, pop open some beers, and direct a CGI music video with an unlimited budget in your head and with words.

LOL...that's definitely one way to go about it.  Really, the way you adventure in Rifts is just about the same as you would with any other game, only realize as GM, you need to stay loose, stay fast, and let the madness kind of draw you and your players along.  You're adventuring in the biggest playset ever, so you won't lack for things to do.  The Adventure Guide has a crapload of ideas if you're really, really stuck, or you can look at sites like Editor's Wastebasket, Nexus Navigator, or, if you can ignore the statisticians, the Palladium boards.

If you're looking for something outside of North America you could go for Triax and the NGR (WB5), Russia (one of my faves, between Warlords of Russia (WB17) and Mystic Russia (WB18), you've got a hell of a campaign setting on your hands), and even China, if you'd like to just push eastward.  Japan is also really self-contained, but easily integrated.  That's one of the cool features of a lot of Rifts World Books, really.  Pick your flavor, or mix it all up.

If you're looking for something to tie it together...why not Underseas (WB7)?  A lot of very strange stuff in that book, my friend, and plenty of chances to enjoy piracy (or anti-piracy), only as Rifts could.